Get involved! Workshops & Clubs

For limelight junkies, thinkers and the inquisitive: Young Opera gives you all a stage! Your stories, ideas, opinions and experiences are needed for projects and productions - both onstage and backstage.

Opera Mice (6+)

The Opernmäuse ('opera mice') are back and they're taking over the opera house! Looking, listening, learning..., they're peeking behind the scenes, taking tours and workshops, being asked for their impressions at rehearsals of our children's productions and generally peering and probing into every nook and cranny of the Opera. All we can say is: Go for it!

Opernmäuse membership covers a whole season. Mäuse meetings are held around once a month, on different weekdays, from 14 September 2018 onwards.One-off fee of € 20,- [Places are limited.] Registrations via Ticket Service of the Deutsche Oper Berlin Tel.: +49 [30] 343 84 343

Radio show featuring Berlin children and teenagers (8 - 14)

For one whole week we will be moving around Berlin collecting sounds and trying to learn more about the various thoroughfares of the city and its inhabitants. ‘We’ are the 50 children and teenagers aged 8 to 14 taking part in the winter-holiday music lab organised by Young Opera. The aim of a number of workshops is for kids to record the sounds of our environment. We will be conducting interviews with Berliners and working the material into creative performances. Together with our workshop leader we will present the results of our research in an audio show.

The Children’s Club is two years old! Following on from the success of its first season, the musical theatre club is heading into the next round in a more streamlined form: we meet on non-school days over the Ascension Day and Whitsun holidays and work with you to create a musical play to be performed in early July in the Tischlerei. You will have a chance to rehearse musical theatre, learning by doing. No prior experience is required, but you should enjoy experimenting with music and drama. - Still at planning stage.

What effect do I have on people? What makes me an individual? What things separate me from the rest of humanity and what things do I do that everyone else does? We turn the magnifying glass on ourselves and the rest of the world and set about developing a musical drama that treads a line between individual and group. - Still at planning stage

Meet people from other cultures, make music together and be coached by big-name Arab, Persian and European artists. You’ll spend a week making music in various daytime workshops and playing, eating, jamming and chilling in the evenings. You’ll round off the week by presenting your own COMMON SOUND mini festival! 16, 17 February 2019, 7pm [Tischlerei]

If you’d like to take part, register for the kick-off workshop of the transcultural “Common Sound” youth project (age 15+) to be held on 12th and 13th January 2019.

Who can take part?Young people aged 15 and over who are happy to criss-cross the boundaries between cultures, venture out of their cultural safe zone and at the end of it all stage their own mini festival. Young people with no musical knowledge or training and just as welcome as people with experience. We are looking for musicians, singers, lyric writers, youngsters interested in music and video and other creative types.

Which languages will be spoken?The working language will be predominantly German, but the artists will also speak Arabic, English, Farsi, Turkish, French and other languages.

Where and when can you register?To take part in the project, you must be involved in the kick-off workshop.Extended registration until the end of January 2019 by emailing schmidt@deutscheoperberlin.de

When are rehearsals and when will the results be presented?Rehearsals: 4th-10th February 2019 [Winter holidays, all day], 12th-15th February 2019 [evenings];Performances: 16th, 17th February 2019 [mini festival in the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper Berlin]

Since the opening of the current season the Deutsche Oper Berlin has been partnered by “Berlin Mondiale - Working with Refugees in the Arts”. As part of this network we are working closely with the residents of a refugee centre and co-hosting a range of projects and programmes that provide refugees with access to the musical-theatre art form and to the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

The „Junge Freunde im Förderkreis“ were founded in April 2009. The Young Friends can join other fans of the opera in order to enjoy the opera together, to get to know each other and to further the philantrophic ideas. They organize events and get-togethers in and revolving around the opera and serve as "Young Persons' Guide to the Opera".